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Church History: The True Story of Joan of Arc

30th May 2017

On May 30, 1431, Jeanne D’Arc—more commonly known to us as “Joan of Arc”—was tied to a pillar in the village of Rouen and burned to death. Nearly everyone has heard of Joan’s unjust execution—but who was this young woman, really? According to a recent survey, one out of every eight Americans thought that Joan […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Video Tagged With: church history, history, Joan of Arc

Family Ministry: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Might Go

22nd May 2017

The first family ministry book I ever read was Family-Based Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries. My first response was to reject family ministry as a preposterous idea in my particular context.  It took two years for the struggles of ministry and the work of the Holy Spirit to change my mind.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: children, children's ministry, church as family, D6, D6 Conferece, family, family as church, family ministry, Family-Based Youth Ministry, family-equipping, family-equipping ministry, history, Mark DeVries, Parenting, Randy Stinson, Ron Hunter, youth ministry

Family Ministry: A New Definition for Family Ministry (Part 2)

16th May 2017

I delivered this paper proposing a revised definition for family ministry in May 2017 at the HOUSE Conference in Australia, a gathering sponsored by YouthWorks and themed around the intersection between family ministry and ecclesiology. This post is the second part of a three-part series articulating the need for a revised definition for family ministry. Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: children's ministry, Christian Endeavor, church history, church ministry, efficiency movement, family ministry, history, Industrial Revolution, intergenerational ministry, intergenerationality, youth ministry

Apologetics: Can We Trust the New Testament Gospels?

3rd May 2017

The witch’s knife plunged deep into the lion’s heart, and the majestic creature quivered and died. For a few seconds, complete silence descended on the movie theater. A slight sniffling beside me broke the stillness, and that’s when I heard my 9-year-old daughter whisper a rather profound word of wisdom to her friend—wisdom that reminds […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History Tagged With: Gospels, historicity, history, Jesus, New Testament, reliability, resurrection

Church History: William Wilberforce and the End of the British Slave Trade

22nd March 2017

In late March, 1807, the British slave trade came to an end. One of the key figures in the battle against the British slave trade was an evangelical Christian named William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was short—about five feet, three inches in stature—and suffered from poor health, but he was eloquent and witty. He became a member […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Video Tagged With: history, racism, slavery, Wilberforce

Church History: Forget About St. Valentine! Today Is St. Cyril’s Day

14th February 2017

The Magnificent Moravian Failures Who Weren’t Failures at All In the ninth century A.D.—four hundred years or so after the fall of the Western Empire—a prince in the land of Moravia asked the emperor of the Eastern Empire to send missionaries to his people. The prince’s motives were primarily political. He needed the support of […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead, Video Tagged With: church hisory, Cyril, Cyrillic, Eastern Orthodox, evangelism, history, Methodius, missionaries, missionary, missions, Moravia, Orthodox

Blog: Most-Read Posts of 2016 and Plans for 2017

3rd January 2017

Around twenty-seven thousand people racked up nearly one hundred thousand views of this blog in 2016. If you were one of them, thank you! Since there are no advertisements on my site, I don’t profit from any of the content. And so, if you’ve profited from what I’ve written, please consider purchasing a book (or two […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, In the News, Lead, Learn, Movie Reviews, Serve, Solve, Video Tagged With: apologetics, church history, family ministry, history, leadership, year in review

Church History: The Church Council that John Calvin Rejected

24th October 2016

On October 23, 787, the last session took place of the last church council that brought together church leaders from both the eastern and western halves of what had once been the Roman Empire. Centuries later, one of the key Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century would reject what these church leaders decided. What brought church leaders […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History, Video Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, council, Eastern Orthodoxy, history, iconoclasm, icons, Islam, John Calvin, Roman Catholicism

Church History: How William Tyndale Changed the World

6th October 2016

On October 6, 1536, William Tyndale was burned at the stake. He was only forty-two years old or so at the time, but the work he had already accomplished in those four decades of life would change the world. You’ve probably seen the bumper sticker: “If you can read, thank a teacher.” Another bumper sticker—or […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Video Tagged With: Bible, history, Reformation, Tyndale

Church History: Rome Burned, But Nero Never Fiddled

23rd July 2016

In late July in the year AD 64, a fire began in the city of Rome that changed the course of history. The fire raged six days before being brought under control. When the smoke cleared on July 23, seven of Rome’s fourteen districts had been partly destroyed and three districts were completely obliterated. Then […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn, Video Tagged With: history, Nero, persecution, Rome

Church History: Why Does Church History Even Matter?

25th July 2014

Why does it matter if Christians know the history of their faith? Well, imagine trying to sustain a marriage with total amnesia, never fully aware of all the past experiences that you and your spouse have shared. Sure, it’s possible sustain such a relationship—and many people whose husbands or wives suffer from dementia valiantly do […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Video Tagged With: 30 days, church history, history

History: An Eyewitness Memory from the Second World War

6th June 2014

  Whenever I meander a museum, I look for living history. I look for people who may have been alive during the time period that’s on display, and I try to listen. I want to know not only what’s on the plaque beside the glass case–I can find that information in any decent history book–but […]

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Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: D-Day, eyewitness, history

Church History: Why the Story of Our Faith Is Bigger and Better Than Facts and Dates

30th May 2014

The following is the second half of an interview I did with Baptist Press related to my book and DVD-curriculum, Christian History Made Easy. Click here for the first half. Q: Why is the average person in the pew largely uninformed about church history? A: I think there are at least a couple of reasons: 1) Particularly among […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: church history, history

Church History: Why Should Anyone Care About Church History?

20th May 2014

The following is part of an interview I did with Baptist Press related to my book and DVD-curriculum, Christian History Made Easy. Professor Timothy Paul Jones acknowledges that plenty of people view the study of history as boring–full of drab facts and dates they’d rather forget. But Jones says it shouldn’t be that way, and he’s […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Serve Tagged With: Baptist Press, church history, history

Church History: How Christianity Happened

23rd April 2014

Easter is certainly a time for celebration, but it is also a time for solemn reflection. We fast and reflect during the season of Lent, then we celebrate the joy of the resurrection on Easter sunday. But what about after Easter? What then? The church has traditionally recognized the season following Easter as a time […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: church history, Early Christianity, Easter, Eastertide, history

Church History: The Legacy of William Wilberforce

25th March 2014

March 25th marks the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain. In 1807 the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, eradicating the inhumane export of African slaves throughout the Empire. About 25 years following that, slavery would be completely outlawed within the British Empire. The major contributor to this movement […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: church history, history, slavery, William Wilberforce

Church History: An Interview with Tom Nettles on the Prince of Preachers

31st January 2014

On January 31, 1892, Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed from this life. More than a century later, he remains one of the most widely-read preachers ever. In Living By Revealed Truth, Dr. Tom Nettles distills more than a decade of his own study into the text that now stands as the premier biography of Spurgeon. Here […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: Charles Spurgeon, church history, history, Tom Nettles

Family Ministry: Family Discipleship in the Middle Ages and Reformation

20th January 2014

With the dawning of imperial favor in the early fourth century and the crumbling of the Roman Empire in the fifth, the primary locus of Christian practice drifted from homes to dedicated institutional structures. Especially in the early Middle Ages, there appears to have been a loss of the ancient model for discipleship in families. […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: christian family, church history, discipleship, family, family ministry, history

Church History: How Did the Many Marriages of Henry VIII Change the History of Christianity?

27th November 2013

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve, Video Tagged With: church history, Church of England, history

Church History: A Quick Introduction to the Icon Controversy

20th November 2013

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve, Video Tagged With: church history, history, icons

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